1 page.title=In-app Billing 2 @jd:body 3 4 <div id="qv-wrapper"> 5 <div id="qv"> 6 7 <h2>Topics</h2> 8 <ol> 9 <li><a href="{@docRoot}guide/market/billing/billing_overview.html">Overview of In-app 10 Billing</a></li> 11 <li><a href="{@docRoot}guide/market/billing/billing_integrate.html">Implementing In-app 12 Billing</a></li> 13 <li><a href="{@docRoot}guide/market/billing/billing_best_practices.html">Security and 14 Design</a></li> 15 <li><a href="{@docRoot}guide/market/billing/billing_testing.html">Testing In-app 16 Billing</a></li> 17 <li><a href="{@docRoot}guide/market/billing/billing_admin.html">Administering In-app 18 Billing</a></li> 19 </ol> 20 <h2>Reference</h2> 21 <ol> 22 <li><a href="{@docRoot}guide/market/billing/billing_reference.html">In-app Billing 23 Reference</a></li> 24 </ol> 25 <h2>Downloads</h2> 26 <ol> 27 <li><a href="{@docRoot}guide/market/billing/billing_integrate.html#billing-download">Sample 28 Application</a></li> 29 </ol> 30 </div> 31 </div> 32 33 <p>Google Play In-app Billing is a Google Play service that lets you sell digital content in 34 your applications. You can use the service to sell a wide range of content, including downloadable 35 content such as media files or photos, and virtual content such as game levels or potions.</p> 36 37 <p>When you use Google Play's in-app billing service to sell an item, Google Play handles all 38 checkout details so your application never has to directly process any financial transactions. 39 Google Play uses the same checkout service that is used for application purchases, so your users 40 experience a consistent and familiar purchase flow (see figure 1). Also, the transaction fee for 41 in-app purchases is the same as the transaction fee for application purchases (30%).</p> 42 43 <p>Any application that you publish through Google Play can implement in-app billing. No special 44 account or registration is required other than a Google Play app publisher account and a Google 45 Checkout Merchant account. Also, because the service uses no dedicated framework APIs, you can add 46 in-app billing to any application that uses a minimum API level of 4 or higher.</p> 47 48 <p>To help you integrate in-app billing into your application, the Android SDK provides a sample 49 application that demonstrates a simple implementation of in-app billing. The sample application 50 contains examples of billing-related classes you can use to implement in-app billing in your 51 application. It also contains examples of the database, user interface, and business logic you might 52 use to implement in-app billing.</p> 53 54 <p class="caution"><strong>Important</strong>: Although the sample application is a working example 55 of how you can implement in-app billing, we <em>strongly recommend</em> that you modify and 56 obfuscate the sample code before you use it in a production application. For more information, see 57 <a href="{@docRoot}guide/market/billing/billing_best_practices.html">Security and Design</a>.</p> 58 59 <img src="{@docRoot}images/billing_checkout_flow.png" height="382" id="figure1" /> 60 <p class="img-caption"> 61 <strong>Figure 1.</strong> Applications initiate in-app billing requests through their own UI 62 (first screen). Google Play responds to the request by providing the checkout user interface 63 (middle screen). When checkout is complete, the application resumes. 64 </p> 65 66 <p>To learn more about Google Play's in-app billing service and start integrating it into your 67 applications, read the following documents:</p> 68 69 <dl> 70 <dt><strong><a href="{@docRoot}guide/market/billing/billing_overview.html">Overview of In-app 71 Billing</a></strong></dt> 72 <dd>Learn how the service works and what a typical in-app billing implementation looks 73 like.</dd> 74 <dt><strong><a href="{@docRoot}guide/market/billing/billing_integrate.html">Implementing 75 In-app Billing</a></strong></dt> 76 <dd>Use this step-by-step guide to start incorporating in-app billing into your 77 application.</dd> 78 <dt><strong><a href="{@docRoot}guide/market/billing/billing_best_practices.html">Security 79 and Design</a></strong></dt> 80 <dd>Review these best practices to help ensure that your in-app billing implementation is 81 secure and well designed.</dd> 82 <dt><strong><a href="{@docRoot}guide/market/billing/billing_testing.html">Testing In-app 83 Billing</a></strong></dt> 84 <dd>Understand how the in-app billing test tools work and learn how to test your in-app billing 85 implementation.</dd> 86 <dt><strong><a href="{@docRoot}guide/market/billing/billing_admin.html">Administering 87 In-app Billing</a></strong></dt> 88 <dd>Learn how to set up your product list, register test accounts, and handle refunds.</dd> 89 <dt><strong><a href="{@docRoot}guide/market/billing/billing_reference.html">In-app Billing 90 Reference</a></strong></dt> 91 <dd>Get detailed information about Google Play response codes and the in-app billing 92 interface.</dd> 93 </dl> 94 95
